Definitions for clincher-built

clincher-built clinch·er-built

Spelling: [klin-cher-bilt]
IPA: /ˈklɪn tʃərˌbɪlt/

Clincher-Built is a 14 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 826 anagrams from letters in clincher-built (-bccehiillnrtu).

Definitions for clincher-built

adjective

  1. clinker-built (def 2).

Origin of clincher-built

First recorded in 1760-70

Examples for clincher-built

Latterly a clincher-built boat with covered fore-sheets, and one mast with a trysail.

The viking ship (from ninth century on-wards) was clincher-built, caulked with hair, and iron fastened.

A bluff, clincher-built vessel, fitted with a well, to preserve the lobsters alive.

A clincher-built vessel with lug-sails, similar to the drift or mackerel boats.

I made another stroke, and felt my hand pass down the side of an object that I knew at once was a clincher-built boat.

Word Value for clincher-built
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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